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25 May 2018 6:15:14am

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Crank,

Wow, yet another bold assertion from you!Do you have any reliable evidence to support your claim?

Of course Robyn Williams has stated relatively recently that sea levels could rise by 100 metres by the end of the century. Is that where you get your intelligence from?

BTW, I’m still waiting for your advice on some other “technical” issues as distinct from your dogmatic (unfounded) rhetoric.

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Robyn Williams wrote to Quadrant Magazine refuting the 100m claim. His letter was published July-August 2012 p3. Here is the letter as sent:

Sir,

I am constantly being quoted as averring that sea levels will rise by 100 metres (see the article on the Academy of Science in your June edition). I do not believe this, never have, and, being a journalist rather than a climate scientists, have no authority on sea levels anyway.

The original smear arose as follows: I was interviewing Andrew Bolt about his misleading the public, according to Dr. Tony Haymet, CEO of the Scripps Institution in La Jolla, on the role of CO2 in warming. I had not met Bolt before and was unaware of the chaos and non sequiturs such an encounter engenders. Bolt suddenly said some rude things about Tim Flannery including his supposed support for large sea level rises. I was asked whether a hundred meter rise was possible by next century (200 years).

I had just returned from Arizona where I had interviewed Prof. Jonathan Overpeck, an expert in the field. He had told me of his research tracking overalll rises and falls going from 100 to 120 metres in history. So I politely gave an answer accordingly: that rises on that scale (including surges) have been published and that extreme stimuli could possibly have such an effect over a long period.

Journalists quote sources. Overpeck was broadcast accordingly on my Science Show. He is the expert, look him up.

I know it is easy to capture a distorted line and repeat it forever, despite repeated (and lengthy – see COSMOS magazine) correction.